Louisville Gets the Most Improved Trophy

I won't argue that there is still a ton of work to be done (you know how fearful I am riding sometimes) but in terms of improvement there have been significant ones. According to the magazine the before part:

"Prior to 2005, the Gateway to the south, with its half-million residents, was marginal, at best, from a city biker's perspective: It had no bike lanes, a measly two shared-use paths and a number of halfhearted-but-never-implemented plans for bike-friendly facilities."

And after:
"since then, Louisville has hired a bike and pedestrian coordinator, completed a quarter of the Louisville Loop and created plans for a weblike bike network to connect the city core to outlying parks and, eventually, to the Louisville Loop. Thirty miles of bike lanes have been striped. And Humana has developed Freewheelin, a bike-share program similar to D.C.'s SmartBike, for its employees to use to ride between the company's buildings in town, though it could eventually expand to the entire city."